Slowlycatchymonkey Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Chance of ok weather here tomorrow morning, if so I’ll definitely be running some errands 🏍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Snow forecast for 3 days next week, time to swap land-rover to front garden me thinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Good Evening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_M Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Good evening. Tonight we are mostly sitting in the middle room, nominally labelled as the dining room. We have the wood burner lit and, being an ancient device on which the controls are not effective, it is consuming wood at a horrific rate. Methinks we’ll have to replace it when we renovate this part of the house. ££££’s 🥲 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowlycatchymonkey Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Steve_M said: Good evening. Tonight we are mostly sitting in the middle room, nominally labelled as the dining room. We have the wood burner lit and, being an ancient device on which the controls are not effective, it is consuming wood at a horrific rate. Methinks we’ll have to replace it when we renovate this part of the house. ££££’s 🥲 Is there a lot of work to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper74 Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Steve_M said: Good evening. Tonight we are mostly sitting in the middle room, nominally labelled as the dining room. We have the wood burner lit and, being an ancient device on which the controls are not effective, it is consuming wood at a horrific rate. Methinks we’ll have to replace it when we renovate this part of the house. ££££’s 🥲 As i travel all over the UK i have my trusty chainsaw with me at all times .... who pays for wood .... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowlycatchymonkey Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Dont know why but I find the idea of you always carrying a chainsaw disturbing 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_M Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 minute ago, Trooper74 said: As i travel all over the UK i have my trusty chainsaw with me at all times .... who pays for wood .... We have about of an acre of woodland. We’re having another couple of trees taken down next week to dry for next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper74 Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Steve_M said: We have about of an acre of woodland. We’re having another couple of trees taken down next week to dry for next year. That sounds like your paying someone to cut the trees down .... i’ll do it for free ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper74 Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 5 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said: Dont know why but I find the idea of you always carrying a chainsaw disturbing Chainsaw, Bowie knife and Gimp mask .... don’t leave home without them ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_M Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 8 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said: Is there a lot of work to do? Oh yes. It’s a 400+ yr old stone built farmhouse that has been treated badly (modern materials and old houses do not good bedfellows make) and neglected. We’re a year into a five year renovation project. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_M Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, Trooper74 said: That sounds like your paying someone to cut the trees down .... i’ll do it for free ..... Errr. Are you qualified and insured? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper74 Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 9 minutes ago, Steve_M said: Errr. Are you qualified and insured? No .. but i've been cutting trees down safely for 40 years ..... and 99% of those you employ are lying to you about their insurance ... check for the Irish accent ...lol I normally take 50% of the cord wood as payment and i clear the site ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowlycatchymonkey Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 48 minutes ago, Steve_M said: Oh yes. It’s a 400+ yr old stone built farmhouse that has been treated badly (modern materials and old houses do not good bedfellows make) and neglected. We’re a year into a five year renovation project. Brrrrrr not something I’d want to take on- good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_M Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 35 minutes ago, Trooper74 said: No .. but i've been cutting trees down safely for 40 years ..... and 99% of those you employ are lying to you about their insurance ... check for the Irish accent ...lol I normally take 50% of the cord wood as payment and i clear the site ... The guys we use are local, and not Irish We suspect some of our drive was laid (topped up) about the same time as the Carlisle by-pass, in the same way as I was offered to have my drive in Brum done when they were working on the M6 toll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilM Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, Steve_M said: The guys we use are local, and not Irish We suspect some of our drive was laid (topped up) about the same time as the Carlisle by-pass, in the same way as I was offered to have my drive in Brum done when they were working on the M6 toll. My mam n dads drive was overlaid when the M62 was being done... Like most drives in brighouse It helped that half of brighouse were of paddy decent 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowlycatchymonkey Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Need my driveway redone it’s degraded tarmac covered in loose gravel and a complete swine to turn a bike on but the idea of the hassle completely puts me off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_M Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 minute ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said: Brrrrrr not something I’d want to take on- good luck The background to this is we decided we wanted to downsize house, and get a bigger garden as we quite enjoy gardening (I did a bit of paid gardening for pin money after I retired). We quite fancied a bit of a project to keep us busy in retirement. Two problems with that. 1) Downsizing house to get a bigger garden is unlikely. We couldn’t afford a house of the size that gave us the bigger garden. Actually, not strictly true but we had a cash flow problem at the time. 2) My good lady saw this house, saw it’s potential and persuaded me it was a good idea (she’s done this before y’know). So we’ve got this project keeping us occupied in retirement / lockdown. It’s working for us thus far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_M Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said: Need my driveway redone it’s degraded tarmac covered in loose gravel and a complete swine to turn a bike on but the idea of the hassle completely puts me off. Much of our drive is in need of a a bit of TLC. I’ll just have to patch it in the short term. The area in front of the house is, we think, old river cobbles, overlaid with 20mm gravel with binding. Good for security, and not too bad for riding on. A bit of hassle for pushing the bike around, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilM Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said: Need my driveway redone it’s degraded tarmac covered in loose gravel and a complete swine to turn a bike on but the idea of the hassle completely puts me off. Get the loose gravel off and go find a gang of friendly road workers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said: Dont know why but I find the idea of you always carrying a chainsaw disturbing I find the idea of him travelling around the UK even more disturbing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowlycatchymonkey Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 hour ago, NeilM said: Get the loose gravel off and go find a gang of friendly road workers I thought about it when they were resurfacing the road outside my house but they made an appalling uneven lumpy job of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Good Morning I still like Fridays! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynax Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Good morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Friday - my day off. Except I am still working. Needs must at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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